He was born in a house on Hubbard Street when Hubbard Street was still a dirt road. He remembered early years in a large, warm family. Around him, people were always sketching and drawing, singing and playing instruments. He played the piano and the violin, but the instrument that made his […]
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Guild of Berkshire Artists gathers color in West Stockbridge
The painter caught my eye, standing on the grass outside the old town hall. Straw hat and smock, pallette and easil — a plein air artist made of straw. On the easil, splashes of bright color announced that the Richmond-West Stockbridge Artists Guild has an exhibit running (August and September […]
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Berkshire artist Carol Kinzel paints a Shaker summer day in 1950
A yellow-painted clapboard building catches the afternoon light. In the wood shed beside it, a pile of logs as broad as tree trunks slants under an overhanging roof, and glass is broken in the windows. Tall grass blows down the center of the dirt driveway. This is Hancock Shaker Village […]
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National Geographic photographs ‘Look West’ at the Berkshire Museum
American bison gallop over open ground in a golden haze in an exhibit at the Berkshire Museum, as National Geographic images probe deep into the West.
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